LIPO madness, post your lipo fails and explosions here!

[tymill]

Dude- get some safety goggles. At least.

very least.

[offroadrc]

okey thanks, i go to sleep now, if you have more advise or special comments like how to burn me self i will read it tomorow lol, i will keep your advise in mind cose i hate burnmarks on me skinn. thanks.

[mattlynch]

blow em up and get it on video, just be careful , you might not care but i am guessing your family does

[offroadrc]

okey

[antnee]

I was thinking this the other day, have any RC lipos actually blown up at races yet?

[offroadrc]

not that i now, they only cose trouble when they are shorted out, or charging the lipo like me. lol

[dodgydiy]

seen a nimh cell explode in a car, big bang andmade a really good mess of the car, also seen one explode in a fast electric boat, it split the hull on that one

[ashleyb4]

Lipo's dont explode the polymer inside the cell burns very quickly and very powerfully. Dead shorting a battery pack will result in ALOT of current being drawn very very quickly. Far to much for the pack to handle resulting in the pack catching fire.

If you want to make a bang get a big capacitor and charge it then dead short it. If its a good one should make a nice bang.

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[Pablo668]

Back in the days of Ni-cd batteries (circa late 80's) I set off a few battery packs accidentally like.
I didn't have a fast charger with timer on it (believe it or not) and kept forgetting to come back and take the battery off charge.
(it was a set of cables with clamps on one end and a tamiya plug on the other).

Cheap and nasty and those batteries went off, sprayed crap everywhere.

I was young ok.

[Captain-Codpiece-The-2nd]

Originally Posted by antnee

I was thinking this the other day, have any RC lipos actually blown up at races yet?

The only certainty Ant is that if there is, it will be you that is standing there with a slightly confused look on your face, singed eyebrows wondering where the feck your pit table went.

PS. the vid in this thread reminds me of brainiac, only without the fit birds in lycra.
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[antnee]

Originally Posted by Captain-Codpiece-The-2nd

The only certainty Ant is that if there is, it will be you that is standing there with a slightly confused look on your face, singed eyebrows wondering where the feck your pit table went.

PS. the vid in this thread reminds me of brainiac, only without the fit birds in lycra.

LMAO!!!!

[offroadrc]

yes, me too, rofl lmao lol ix :d , Mookaaaayyyy

[jim76]

haven't seen any catch fire, but Mike Williams had one puff up like a cake in an oven on his pit table. Was funny seeing the panic in his tent as they quickly lobbed it in a bush!

[offroadrc]

thinks with fire/explosions are always funny when nobody is hurd.

[mattlynch]

never had a li-po failure yet, i have had 2 Reedy/sanyo 3300 cells spray there guts all over the work bench, only charging at 1C.

[Fiddybux]

I enjoyed / was scared when he went back to test if it was hot / going to explode!

[reg]

i had some IB4200 go bang,i was selling them and took the pic for fleebay in the front room,i had finished putting eveything on and left averything in the front room,the next thing the kids started screeming and shouting the house is on fire,all 5 of them went running and screeming out the house,the eldest went back in to get the yongest,i went into the front room and it looked like i harria jumpjet was taking off next to the sofa,i was s**ting my pant,i had to get them out so opend the window just as they started to go off like handgranades,i got a jumper grabbed them and lobed what was left out the window,the rest of them went of like a fire cracker,the kids came screaming back in the house,it was a saddle pack and one of the kids had kicked it and it shorted out,we were very lucky,this all happend when the Miss went away for the weekend

[Captain-Codpiece-The-2nd]

You are a true member of team shambles now

That sounds like something out of a film!
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[millzy]

We had a set of IB4200 go off in the tent at one of the E.O.S
my old man sat next to the pack and just thought it was the can of coke i droped on the table hissing, it wasnt until the black crap started covering the pit table he thought about moving